Smackdown Review – 05.15.26

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Smackdown is invading the USA/Netflix airwaves from the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Cackalacky. The announcing team for this evening’s show are Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett on match calls and analysis, Mark Nash on ring introductions, and Cathy Kelley on backstage interviews and breaking news segments. Let’s watch some wrestling!

Then, Now, Forever…..TOGETHER

Arrivals: WWE Men’s Undisputed Champion Cody Rhodes with a contract binder in hand. In a split-screen, we see WWE Men’s Tag Team Champions Damian Priest and R-Truth on the left, and Solo Sikoa with Tama Tonga and Talla Tonga on the right. Still in split-screen, here’s Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss on the left, and Jade Cargill with B-Fab and Michin on the right. Finally, in the middle of the football field at Williams-Brice Stadium it’s South Carolina’s own WWE Men’s US Champion Trick Williams.

Here’s some highlights from Backlash and the biggest developments from a Smackdown perspective are highlighted including Danhausen and Mini-Hausen’s triumph over Kit Wilson and The Miz, and Trick Williams retaining his title over Sami Zayn.

Here’s WWE Men’s US Champion Trick Williams out to a huge “Whoop That, Trick” chant. Trick has Lil Yachty and Cocky with him (Cocky is the USC Gamecocks mascot). Trick does the requisite things to get the hometown pops and then puts over his favorite restaurant, Kiki’s Chicken and Waffles. Trick’s parents are in the crowd, and they get a nice pop. Here’s The Miz and Kit Wilson out to interrupt and insult how many people in costume seem to follow Trick around. Yachty is pissed about the interruption and reminds Wilson and Miz that they are CURSED. Miz denies being cursed as usual and Wilson decides to bust out some SLAM POETRY BY KIT WILLIE. Yachty, who has a gigantic stogie, wants to respond in kind and busts out a verse of his own while making sure to get in a shot at Miz’s testicular size. Miz breaks out the “when my hand goes up, your mouth goes shut” routine and wants a referee so he can whoop Trick’s ass in front of his mama. Fisticuffs break out and Trick sends both Wilson and Miz to the floor. We go to commercials.

WWE Men’s US Champion Trick Williams vs The Miz

Miz doesn’t give a clean break and gets shoved down to the canvas after he bullied Trick to a corner. Trick hits a flying clothesline and Miz goes to the apron. Miz chokes Trick over the top rope and ascends. Trick belts Miz in the gut when he jumps down, and then fires off some more right hands. Miz lifts a knee and then smashes Trick with a running boot. Miz bullies Trick along the ropes and then runs over Trick with a tackle. Miz puts the boots to Trick and then gets caught in a Trick jumping neckbreaker. Trick starts firing off rights before putting the boots to Miz. Miz gets snap-mared over and then bails to the floor when Trick wants the Trick Shot. They go to the floor and Trick hammers Miz with an uppercut before ramming him several times into the barricade. Trick runs Miz back in and as the ref turns to check on Miz, Wilson flies in and mashes Trick with a back elbow. Miz hits a between-the-ropes dropkick and goes face to face with a grumpy Yachty as we go to commercials.

They’re slugging it out when the show returns. Trick mashes Miz with a couple of leg lariats and then slams him down. Trick hits a Book End and gets a two count. Miz hits a double thrust to Trick’s throat and then slips a charge. Trick slips out of a Skull Crushing Finale and rolls up Miz for two. Miz snaps off his short DDT and covers Trick for two. Miz fires off some YES kicks and Miz snatches him into a roll up that gets two. Trick hits a facebuster and nips up but Wilson interferes and Miz grabs a roll up for two that Trick reverses for two. Miz hits the Skull Crushing Finale and Trick kicks out at two. Wilson goes to the apron as Miz sneaks out to grab a kendo stick. Yachty prevents the kendo stick attack and smashes Wilson with it a couple of times before sending him over the announce desk. Trick hits the Trick Shot after all the distraction from the floor, and covers Miz for three.

The crowd ate this up because A. Miz is such a mega-goober and a good person to eat a pin while looking credible enough, and B. Trick is over like rover in his hometown building. We did spend thirty minutes of show time on this, so they clearly wanted to give Trick his shine in Columbia, which is fine and a nice departure from how things used to be. 2.5*

Winner – Trick Williams (Trick Shot)

Here’s Cathy Kelley with Carmelo Hayes who will do battle with Ricky Saints tonight. Hayes wants to chat about the US title, and here’s Ricky Saints to complain he never got a proper hello from Hayes. Hayes mentions how much Smackdown can humble someone and Saints might get humbled tonight. Saints says he’s there to teach Hayes a lesson and he’s the best man for the job. Saints leaves and Hayes mutters that “it’s like looking in a dirty mirror”.

Here’s Smackdown GM Nick Aldis with Rey Fenix who says he’s got his eye on something big before leaving. Here’s Sami Zayn in to chat about his actions during the Backlash match, and that he wants a rematch for the US title. Aldis says Zayn had his rematch and lost, and must earn another shot. Zayn is incensed and says his ride-or-die fans do not forget his body of work. Aldis says that Zayn needs to deal with his “stuff” because all he’s getting from Zayn right now is “entitled”. Fenix comes back in to try to calm Zayn down, but Zayn won’t listen, so Fenix leaves as well. We go to commercials.

Here’s Cathy Kelley with WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Brie Bella and Paige. They recognize how great the division has been and they’ve worked really hard to get where they are. Here’s Nia Jax and Lash Legend in to mention how much they want Bella and Paige to win tonight and on Monday night because they have a title match scheduled for Saturday Night’s Main Event and they really want to beat Paige and Bella. “Brie Mode” hits and the champs leave before any more insults can fly.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship: Brie Bella and Paige (C) vs Kiana James and Giulia

It’s Bella and James to start and James bullies Bella down before walloping her with a knee. Bella fires up with a right and a side Russian leg sweep before tagging in Paige. Paige eats an elbow but Bella and Paige recover to double team James before Paige covers and gets two. Giulia tags in and kicks Paige in the mid-section a couple of times before firing off some rights and lefts. Giulia hits a snap suplex and covers Paige for two. Paige slips a clothesline attempt and belts Giulia with a big kick. Paige smashes Giulia with a bunch of knees and when the ref goes to check on her, James dumps Paige face-first on the apron. Giulia charges out and rams Paige face-first into a ring post. We go to commercials.

Giulia mounts Paige on a top turnbuckle when the show returns. Giulia ascends and Paige fires off a sunset flip powerbomb. James and Bella get tags and Bella smashes James and Giulia around before yelling BRIE MODE to the bored crowd. Bella fires off some YES kicks and hits an X-Factor on James for two. Bella dumps Giulia to the floor and eats a kick from James. Giulia tags in and gets caught with a James lungblower followed by a Giulia Northern Lights Bomb that gets two. Paige gets dumped and Giulia tags James in. Paige charges back in and James fires her into Giulia as they tumble to the floor. Bella rolls up James for two before eating a James superkick. James’s standing moonsault meets Bella’s knees and Paige tags in to smash James with the RAMPAIGE DDT. Paige covers James and gets three.

We’re in the middle of a long-form break up between Giulia and James here, and I honestly thought they’d rip the band-aid off sooner prior to Giulia potentially having a big match at the Italy show, but perhaps that’s not in the cards. The crowd was pretty dead for most of this. 2.25*

Winners AND STILL WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions – Brie Bella and Paige (Ram-paige DDT)

Tessitore and Barrett now turn to the ongoing saga of WWE Men’s Undisputed Champion Cody Rhodes and his newest antagonist, GUNTHER. We had a whole thing happen last week, and now it’s apparently time for this week’s chapter. Here’s Cody Rhodes toting his title belt and a contract binder on his way to the ring. SHINER UPDATE: It’s almost gone! We go to commercials.

Here’s Cathy Kelley with WWE Women’s US Champion Tiffany Stratton, and Stratton is clearly waiting to be interrupted. Kiana James and Giulia helpfully are arguing in the background, and then here’s Chelsea Green on two feet (!) to come in and hype up Stratton. Stratton mentions that Green and her were not actually meant to be a team, and Green blows it off to Kelley as playful banter.

“Kingdom” engulfs the arena and here’s the champion out to a fairly sizeable pop. Rhodes grabs a chair from the announce table and tosses it in the ring, and then grabs one from the timekeeper’s area and tosses that in as well. Rhodes then yanks out a non-Slim Jim table (SO YOU KNOW HE MEANS FUCKIN’ BUSINESS, DUDE) and sets up a nice contract signing set in the ring. Rhodes stops to soak in some cheers before asking what Columbia wants to talk about. Rhodes promises that we’re going to have a signing of both a Smackdown contract and a match contract for Clash in Italy. Here’s our good friend GUNTHER out and he seems grumpy. Gunther wants to make sure that everyone knows he’s the best wrestler and this would be a huge change, but Rhodes makes it all about himself like a “typical American”. Gunther says when the attention isn’t on Rhodes, he finds a way to make it about himself, but “Golden Boy” just needs to be professional and address Gunther nicely while remembering to say “please”. Rhodes reminds Gunther that he’s the one that’s making things weird and he should PLEASE come to the ring and sign the contracts. Gunther doesn’t think Rhodes was being sincere, and here’s Royce Keys out to say that if Gunther won’t sign the Italy contract, he will. Keys marches to the ring and Rhodes shows him the Italy show contract, and that finally spurs Gunther to sprint to the ring. Gunther and Keys go nose to nose and here’s Nick Aldis out to remind Gunther that all of this was supposed to be simple, but he’s overplayed his hands and now the shot is up in the air. Keys will now face Gunther for the shot in Turin on tonight’s Smackdown! Rhodes tells Keys he’s proud of him, but while he’s easy to find, he’s hard to beat. Rhodes and Keys eye each other up and Keys makes his exit.

Here’s Solo Sikoa with Tama Tonga and Talla Tonga. Solo asks Tama if he understands the assignment and reminds Tama to take Priest out tonight so they can make getting the tag titles easier. Talla and Solo leave to go to have a chat with Royce Keys and here’s Shinsuke Nakamura in to continue chatting with Tama. Talla flies in to smash Nakamura around before putting him through a nearby table. Security rushes in to check on Nakamura as we go to commercials.

Gunther is still yelling at Nick Aldis when the show returns, and Aldis tells him you don’t play games with him and that’s why Gunther now has to earn his shot.

Carmelo Hayes vs Ricky Saints

Saints attacks just after the bell and fires off a bunch of rights and chops. There’s an armdrag exchange and Hayes wins the standoff with a dropkick. Hayes chops away and rams Saints head-first into a turnbuckle. Saints fires up with some rights and then does his shitty rope walk for his clubbering right hand. Saints keeps chopping but gets sent to the apron when he charges. Hayes hits a reverse springboard legdrop and sends Saints to the floor. Hayes hits a gigantic flying tackle and we go to commercials.

Saints has Hayes mounted on a top turnbuckle when the show returns. Hayes dumps Saints down and rises for a frog splash that gets two. Hayes wants the First 48 but Saints prevents it with a right hand and a nasty-looking Death Valley Driver that gets two. Here’s an inset promo for the Pressure D-Day movie as Saints grabs a rear chinlock. Hayes breaks out and hits a reverse thrust kick and a boot to Saints head. Hayes hits another reverse thrust and a reverse springboard lariat. Hayes hits Saints with the Dirty Diana and covers Saints for two. There’s a standoff and an exchange of roll-ups before Saints yanks Hayes into a side slam that gets two. Saints clubbers away and puts the boots to Hayes before yanking him up. Hayes shakes off the Revolution DDT attempt and smashes Saints with a First 48 that gets two. Hayes ascends slowly and misses his Melo Don’t Miss before running right into Saints Revolution DDT. Saints covers and gets two, and he’s not happy. Saints rams Hayes into a corner and tries to use the top rope for leverage during his subsequent cover, but Lil Naitch sees it and stops the count. Saints and Robinson argue, and Hayes uses that time to grab a roll up on Saints for three while his feet are on the ropes.

I believe the English used the phrase “hoist on your own petard” to describe what just happened, and we around here just call it “LOLRICKY” when it happens. So what will happen from here is that Saints will complain a bunch to Nick Aldis and get a rematch probably next week, and he’ll win that nefariously, and then we’ll have a blow-off somewhere in a few weeks after everyone has stopped caring about any of it. I love Smackdown! 3*

Winner – Carmelo Hayes (Roll up with feet on the ropes)

Here’s WWE Men’s Tag Team Champion R-Truth running into Royce Keys backstage. Truth wants to thank Keys for helping them with the MFT’s last week, and wants Keys to join the new Judgement Day he’s part of. Keys says he’ll think about it, and leaves. Damian Priest joins the scene to question why the MFT’s take out everyone BUT Keys and warns Truth to be careful. Truth apologizes for coming out last week when Priest told him not to, and Priest says he’s glad he knows Truth is safe because he’s not medically cleared. Priest leaves and Truth yells “I LOVE YOU” as he exits. That was the sweetest thing. We go to commercials.

Here’s Danhausen backstage in what appears to be his lab taking a quick phone call while telling that person that things at Backlash went perfectly. Danhausen drags in a gurney with a covered body on it before typing madly into his computer. OH YOU DANHAUSEN

WWE Men’s Tag Team Champion Damian Priest vs Tama Tonga

Remember when there was a mystery about who attacked Jacob Fatu backstage? Yeah. Tonga attacks at the bell before Priest has even removed his coat, so Priest responds in kind. Tonga fires up with some rights and then eats a big back elbow from Priest after firing him into the ropes. Priest smashes Tonga with a right, but Tonga slides in and grabs a roll up for two. Priest rocks Tonga with a high kick and Tonga bails to the floor. Priest decides to go out and gets met by Tonga flying off the ring steps with a big clothesline. We go to commercials.

Tonga and Priest are fighting it out on the second rope when the show returns. Priest clubbers away and wants the Razor’s Edge, but Tonga flips around and puts Priest into a sleeper hold. Priest slams Tonga into a turnbuckle to break it up, but walks right into a Tonga dragon screw leg whip. Tonga pulls Priest into a jumping DDT and covers him for two. Tonga bullies Priest around which only seems to fire him up. Priest smashes Tonga down and then boxes his ears. Priest snaps off a roundhouse and a Flatliner. Priest hits a flying elbow and then drops Tonga with a Falcon Arrow that gets two. Tonga bails to the floor and Priest heads out to drive him over the announce table. Priest pulls Tonga back into the ring and ascends. Priest slips and Tonga comes in to complete the crotching. Tonga hits a swinging neckbreaker and covers Priest for two. (This crowd just doesn’t care one bit about this.) Tonga grabs a double underhook but Priest reverses it and yanks Tonga up for the goozle. Tonga escapes and runs into a Priest lariat. Priest drops the straps and hoists Tonga up for the South of Heaven chokeslam. Priest covers and gets three.

I don’t think this feud is really grabbing anyone’s attention at the moment. Solo losing half of his group to budget cuts and Priest and Truth feeling really makeshift as a team doesn’t really make for a whole lot of intrigue, but I guess we’re trying with something regarding the tag titles. Tama Tonga just loses a bunch, so I guess he’s now the designated job guy for the MFT’s. This was just a match and you won’t care or remember hardly any of it by Saturday afternoon. 2*

Winner – Damian Priest (South of Heaven chokeslam)

Post-match sees Talla Tonga fly in to drop Priest with a high boot. Solo Sikoa joins him and drops Priest with a Samoan Spike.

Here’s Sami Zayn still bitching about the earlier interaction with Nick Aldis, and he’s yelling about things with Sad John Wrestling when the camera pulls back. Here’s Candice LeRae in to yell about Zayn talking about being entitled because she’s entitled to a husband who doesn’t act like this. LeRae leaves, Zayn continues chirping at Gargano, and Gargano just lays there and stares into the abyss. NOW THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! We go to commercials.

Here’s a look back at last week’s six women tag match that was interrupted by Jade Cargill and the New Baddies, presented by PROGRESSIVE.

Here’s Jade Cargill out in gear and ridiculously high heeled boots, followed by Michin and B-Fab who are also in gear. Cargill says everyone acts tough when she’s not in the building, but when her music hits everyone gets real quiet. Cargill says she’s going to beat Ripley at Clash in Italy because she’s that….

Here’s Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss out to make their entrance. Flair has a microphone as does Bliss, and she mentions no one wants to hear Cargill talk in Flair country. Flair says Cargill finally really pissed her off last week, so it’s time to play. Cargill wants to know where Rhea Ripley is and calls Bliss a “backup dancer”. Bliss wants to know why Cargill’s backup dancers don’t make her look any better, and Flair mentions that Cargill should take some notes while Flair and Bliss beat them. Everyone is bored by everyone else, and a ref charges out as we go to commercials.

(The above is the PERFECT example of why this show at three hours is such a fucking slog for anyone to sit through. All this was was a highlights package, two prolonged entrances, some innocuous “you suck – no you are the one who actually sucks” banter, and back to commercials. Just an utterly pointless waste of time.)

Here’s another Blake Monroe vignette. She’s picking out clothes! She’ll be here soon!

Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss vs B-Fab and Michin

Flair and Michin start and Michin bails to the floor after Flair catches her in a go-behind. Flair invites Michin back in while putting the stink-mouth on a seated Cargill. Flair gets clipped by Michin and then Michin wallops Flair with an overhead Pele kick. Flair rams Michin into a corner and chops away. Michin yanks Flair down by her hair and then clubbers away with rights. Michin snaps off a rana and a reverse roundhouse that sends Flair to the mat. Flair fires up and rolls Michin around with a leg scissors before nipping up and strutting. Flair invites Cargill to suck it, and Bliss and B-Fab tag in. Bliss runs wild with her offense, and then she mashes B-Fab with a running Meteora. Bliss misses her jumping tackle and B-Fab smashes her with a lariat before going to ground and pound. B-Fab stands on Bliss and then pulls her up. Bliss gets caught coming off the send rope and dropped with a Flatliner that gets two. We go to commercials.

Michin smacks Flair off the apron when the show returns. Flair gets angry about this which allows B-Fab and Michin time to double team a helpless Bliss. Michin yanks Bliss up and takes forever, so Bliss snaps off a tornado DDT and crawls slowly towards Flair. Flair and B-Fab get tags and Flair crushes B-Fab with a cross-body. Flair chops away at the Baddies and then wallops B-Fab with a running lariat. Flair says “Hey Jade, this is for you, bitch!” and then hits B-Fab with a fall-away slam before doing the same thing to a charging Michin. Flair flexes at Cargill and this causes her to spring out of her seat so B-Fab can yank Flair off the ropes. Michin tags in and smashes Flair with a missile dropkick. Michin and B-Fab hit double pump kicks and Bliss breaks up B-Fab’s cover at two. Michin pulls Flair down over the second rope and B-Fab pulls Flair’s bottoms while rolling her up (You’re gonna see screenshots of this, I’m sure…poor Charlotte.). Flair angrily breaks out of this and pulls B-Fab into the Figure Four, but Michin breaks it up before Flair could bridge. Bliss tags in and B-Fab wipes out Flair with a back kick. Flair goes to the apron and disposes of Michin while Bliss pulls B-Fab into Sister Abigail. Cargill pulls Bliss out to the floor off the cover and the ref calls for the DQ.

Okay, so let’s sum up the last twenty minutes. You had an entire segment devoted to the entrances and pre-match “promos”, such as they were. You then had the first segment of a match where everyone just traded a bunch of moves in front of a dead crowd, went to commercials, came back for another segment and then went to a shitty DQ finish. Also, Cargill is feuding with Rhea Ripley, or so I thought. What a spectacular waste of time this entire thing was. 1.5*

Winners – Flair/Bliss (DQ win when Cargill interfered)

Post-match sees Flair launch Michin over the announce desk before wiping out B-Fab with a high boot. Flair invites Cargill in before checking on Bliss.

Here’s Fatal Influence watching that horrendous segment unfold and shaking their heads. Cathy Kelley wants a word and Fallon Henley mentions that you’re either the predator or the prey and they are at the top of the food chain. Lainey Reid puts the stink-mouth on other women’s teams and says none of them are actually loyal to each other. Jacy Jayne mentions that loyalty is Fatal’s currency and it will pay dividends when they’re draped in gold. Jayne says everyone will fall at the feet of Fatal, and they leave. We go to commercials.

Here’s Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss backstage and Flair mentions she’s working hard at trying to be a team player but where the heck is Rhea Ripley? They’ve been outnumbered, and Flair mentions that she’s not a “looking for help” kind of person. Bliss says Ripley owes them one and leaves to find her, so Flair decides to tag along.

Here’s Tessitore and Barrett throwing to highlights of the Bloodline saga on Raw (see Kat’s incredible review for further details). Roman has been put through some tables lately, hasn’t he?

Here’s Royce Keys warming up and being approached by Solo Sikoa. Sikoa says he can help Keys win tonight and help him become champion. Sikoa wants Keys to follow him and not listen to Jacob Fatu anymore because he’d hate to see what happened to Shinsuke Nakamura happen to Keys. An irate Keys drops his flex-belt and tell Sikoa he’s got this, and Sikoa reminds him that Fatu said the same thing.

GUNTHER makes his entrance and we go to commercials.

Tessitore reminds everyone the show will be in Lexington KY next week, and runs down the current card that includes Shinsuke Nakamura vs Talla Tonga. Tessitore then talks about the SNME card which has an Intercontinental title match between champion Penta and challenger Ethan Page. The Street Profits will take on the Vision for the Raw tag titles, and there will be a six-woman tag between Flair/Bliss/Ripley vs Cargill/Michin/B-Fab.

Number One Contender’s Match: GUNTHER vs Royce Keys

GUNTHER doesn’t give a clean break after bullying Keys to a corner, and Keys pops him with a forearm that sends GUNTHER to the floor. GUNTHER bails again as we’re doing the Memphis Stall to kill time. GUNTHER heads back in finally and grabs the advantage with a kick and a side headlock. Keys breaks out and they challenge each other with shoulder tackle attempts. GUNTHER starts throwing chops and Keys fights it off to start throwing forearms and rights. Keys runs into a big boot but then yanks GUNTHER into a walking powerslam that gets two. GUNTHER goes to the floor again and Keys finally heads out to run him into a barricade. Keys fires GUNTHER into the barricade again and then stops the count so he can jump back out to send GUNTHER over the announce table. We go to commercials.

GUNTHER and Keys exchange clotheslines and both are down when the show returns. GUNTHER chops Keys down and wants a suplex but Keys is the one who ultimately gets it. Keys fires off some rights but then eats a couple of knees and a clubbering right that sends him down for a GUNTHER two count. GUNTHER dumps Keys to the floor and then tells the crowd it’s his ring. GUNTHER goes out to the apron to kick Keys, but Keys catches him and drops GUNTHER with some World’s Strongest Slams on the announce table. Keys rolls GUNTHER back in and eats a big boot. GUNTHER misses a charge and Keys follows with a splash. GUNTHER fires out of the corner with a lariat before ascending. Keys fires up and drops GUNTHER with a superplex before covering and getting two. Everyone rises slowly and Keys starts clubbering away before GUNTHER slaps on the sleeper hold. Here’s Solo Sikoa at ringside to clap for Keys while trying to fire him up. Keys uses the distraction to break out of the sleeper and they start slugging it out. Keys waffles GUNTHER with lariats and covers him for two. Keys hits a couple of running splashes and GUNTHER immediately puts the sleeper back on. Keys throws some elbows but walks into some big slaps from GUNTHER. Keys sends GUNTHER careening into the referee and Sikoa immediately yanks out a chair to give to Keys. Keys whips the chair back at Sikoa and while he’s distracted, GUNTHER smashes Keys with a lariat from behind and then one from the front. GUNTHER hits a powerbomb and covers Keys for three.

So we went around the block to get to next door with this GUNTHER-Cody thing. I guess it’s cool that Keys got a bit television main event and lost to some overbooked nonsense. The crowd was mostly into this and got kind of wound up when Sikoa appeared but not much came of it and they only really perked up again for the post-match stuff. This was underwhelming and to me, felt like another waste of time just to get to what will be a mid-card feud between Sikoa and Keys. Three hour Smackdowns, baby! 2.75*

Winner – GUNTHER (Powerbomb)

Post-match sees GUNTHER barking into a camera before Cody Rhodes charges in to drop him with a CrossRhodes. Rhodes celebrates as “Kingdom” fires up for the second time tonight. The credits roll and we’re out.

I’m guessing there will be some sighs of relief once May is over and they can start doing two hour shows again. There’s just so much filler right now and you can just tell when they’re wasting time to get to the bullet points of the show’s agenda. We are moving pieces around for the many upcoming shows, but nothing is really grabbing me as something I have to see right now. Hopefully the heat will ramp up a bit in some of these feuds and soon.

Thanks for reading and commenting. Enjoy your weekends.